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Book

Students on strike : Jim Crow, civil rights, Brown, and me : a memoir

Call Number

  • J 379.263 STOK (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.

Physical Description

127 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Contents

  • Fear makes me hide
  • Growing up rich in spirit
  • School days
  • Life in the Jim Crow South
  • Beating the system
  • Lessons from Ned
  • The sky did not fall
  • Separate but never equal
  • Our Manhattan project
  • There's a riot at the school
  • Taking care of business
  • Don't give up
  • Uncharted waters
  • A skittish night
  • Cover me
  • Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
  • Massive resistance
  • Standing on shoulders.

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